Why East Liberty might change even quicker than you think (Pittsburgh: apartment complexes, leases)

[wyoh]

Union Pig & Chicken is across the street, the other East Liberty restaurants are in easy walking distance. A strip of decent restaurants and shopping just across the Highland bridge. Starbucks and Whole Foods very close. Google and Bakery Square 2.0 very close. Easy access to the zoo and pretty good access to downtown.

[WhoIsStanwix?]

Originally Posted by wyoh

Union Pig & Chicken is across the street, the other East Liberty restaurants are in easy walking distance. A strip of decent restaurants and shopping just across the Highland bridge. Starbucks and Whole Foods very close. Google and Bakery Square 2.0 very close. Easy access to the zoo and pretty good access to downtown.

Does anyone know when the bridge on highland opens? Looks like the road surface is done and only a few sections of sidewalk and barrier need to be poured, along with line painting.

[wyoh]

Originally Posted by selltheburgh

The bad news:
The Highland Ave bridge is supposed to open in less than a month (though it was supposed to be open last week).

I haven't heard anything other than what selltheburgh wrote. I'll certainly be glad when it's open.

[CFP]

Originally Posted by wyoh

Union Pig & Chicken is across the street, the other East Liberty restaurants are in easy walking distance. A strip of decent restaurants and shopping just across the Highland bridge. Starbucks and Whole Foods very close. Google and Bakery Square 2.0 very close. Easy access to the zoo and pretty good access to downtown.

and easy access to the allegheny womens center (abortion clinic) literally right across whitfield street at 5910 kirkwood in case you need to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy or join an anti-abortion protest on the weekends

Contact Us » Allegheny Reproductive Health Center

http://goo.gl/maps/tivof

[wyoh]

Originally Posted by CFP

and easy access to the allegheny womens center (abortion clinic) literally right across whitfield street at 5910 kirkwood in case you need to get rid of an unwanted pregnancy or join an anti-abortion protest on the weekends

Contact Us » Allegheny Reproductive Health Center

http://goo.gl/maps/tivof

Which looks like it's in the same building as the Brightside Academy Early Care and Learning Center

[markson33]

Originally Posted by CFP

who in their right mind is going to stay at the indigo more than once?

every storefront across the street on highland except for the smoke shop is vacant
http://goo.gl/maps/0Ec9Q
and supposedly that will be closing soon as well

I couldn't disagree more. The Broad-Highland area is going to, eventually, be what Bakery Square wanted to be. I can easily see 5-6 restaurants in a one block area with a strong contingent of tech related office users above.

[selltheburgh]

Originally Posted by markson33

I couldn't disagree more. The Broad-Highland area is going to, eventually, be what Bakery Square wanted to be. I can easily see 5-6 restaurants in a one block area with a strong contingent of tech related office users above.

I agree and it'll likely be unique restaurants unlike Panera and Jimmy Johns that Bakery Square has. It won't be like Mayberry like some expect the definition of nice to be, but it hopefully won't be chain restaurants like the Waterworks or BkSq.

[Geeo]

I envision it to be similar to the block bounded by Baum, Highland, and Penn Circle South, with a mix of unique little restaurants and bars, along with the strip next to where the Eastside complex is expanding. Kind of a continuation of the restaurant row that's already there.

[CFP]

Originally Posted by Geeo

I envision it to be similar to the block bounded by Baum, Highland, and Penn Circle South, with a mix of unique little restaurants and bars, along with the strip next to where the Eastside complex is expanding. Kind of a continuation of the restaurant row that's already there.

and what, no optimistic vision for the main street in the area, penn avenue?

eastside successfully leveraged the wealth and success of the shadyside retail scene,
and spoon, pizza sola, plum, notion, livermore, the highland bldg/patron are leveraging on eastside

the next move has to be for penn avenue to successfully leverage the success of highland-baum-circle

no way broad street-indigo becomes successful with penn still stuck in its present state

penn with its wide sidewalks and cathedral and parking should be a development no-brainer, so why is it being neglected?

h_curtis can answer that

[selltheburgh]

Nobody thought that Lawrenceville was going to do what it did and even those that had some inclination didn't know that the 6th ward was going to take off faster and further than the 9th ward...except maybe Lee Gross who bought most of those properties.

The Highland / Broad section of East Liberty is sort of like that and maybe Lessoon is thinking the same way. Penn Ave isn't very vacant. It has a lot of businesses. Most of which are kind of crappy - check cashing places, lottery store, rent a center, lots of run down nail salons, etc. But they are full and likely paying rent. It is a lot easier to put nice businesses in vacant store fronts than it is to replace somebody who is already paying rent. That's why I think that Penn Ave will likely be the last part of East Liberty's business district to really take off.